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clock rescuing, distributing relief materials,<br />
providing food and essential health care etc. It has<br />
volunteers from local region who are well aware<br />
of the topography and hence reaching far flung<br />
areas to locate the needy people, waiting to be<br />
evacuated to safer locations, in the first place and<br />
provide them with the needed help which other<br />
agencies involved aren’t able to effectively do , as<br />
they are unaware of the terrain.<br />
From 19 th of August 2008 itself, the Samiti set up<br />
7 Sewa Centres/Camps in seven most affected<br />
districts to provide immediate relief, food, shelter<br />
and treating sick people on arrival. The seven<br />
centres are as mentioned below: Raghopur; Vivah<br />
Bhawan, Shankar Chawk, Saharsa; Bihariganj,<br />
Madhepura : Sewa Bharati Office, Madhubani<br />
Chawk, Purnea; Sangh Karyalaya, Shiv Mandir<br />
Chawk, Katihar; Sangh Karyalaya, Nawgachhia<br />
and Shiv Mandir, Forbisganj, Araria<br />
Though the people have started moving back to<br />
their homes due to receding flood waters, over<br />
3000 people are still there in our relief camp<br />
operating from Zila School in Saharsa district of<br />
Bihar.<br />
Distribution of relief materials is still being done<br />
from all 7 centres and 21 sub-centres and a regular<br />
community kitchen is in operation to provide them<br />
food and safe drinking water.<br />
On 7 th of September, Baba Ramdev, Acharya<br />
Balkrishan and R K Sinha visited our relief centre<br />
at Zila School, Saharsa, where he performed<br />
Bharat Mata pujan. Speaking on the occasion, he<br />
praised the good work being done by Seva Bharati<br />
volunteers during this disaster, and went ahead<br />
saying that other <strong>org</strong>anizations should also do<br />
similar things to serve the needy.<br />
From the 5 th of September, a new relief centre has<br />
been started at Kodiyapatti in Triveniganj block of<br />
Saharsa, catering about 4000 people. This centre is<br />
12 KM from the Triveniganj block headquaters<br />
and can only be reached by boats. Team of<br />
Doctors from Sewa Bharati, Gorakhpur has set up<br />
a medical camp to treat the flood victims in the<br />
village Kodiapatti.<br />
6. SIX BHARATIYAS IN FORBES' YOUNG<br />
ASIAN RICH LIST: Six Bharatiyas, including<br />
Ranbaxy promoter family's Malvinder and<br />
Shivinder Singh, Suzlon's Girish Tanti and<br />
2<br />
Indiabulls' Sameer Gehlaut, have made it to a list<br />
of 15 youngest Asian billionaires, compiled by<br />
business magazine Forbes.<br />
"The country's millionaires jumped 23% last year.<br />
The billionaire count soared to 53 from 36 the<br />
previous year," Forbes said, adding that Bharat has<br />
maintained its pace in the money race.<br />
Other Bharatiyas on the list include real estate firm<br />
Oberoi Constructions' Vikas Oberoi and online<br />
gambling entity PartyGaming's founder Anurag<br />
Dikshit.<br />
7. MY EXPERIENCE DURING MY LAST<br />
TRIP TO BHARAT: In my last trip to Bharat, I<br />
stayed in my village for 17 days which is my<br />
longest stay in my village after 1983. I wanted to<br />
Utilize this stay for some social service. Yoga and<br />
accupressure being my favourite topics, I<br />
mobilized my fellow villagers, explained them the<br />
benefits of these free medical treatment<br />
techniques. They were very interested to learn it.<br />
Invited them in the morning at 5:30am and had<br />
one and a half hour session for several days. It<br />
brought very exciting results. Over 50 of them,<br />
Men, women, young, adults and children are<br />
performing pranayam, yoga postures and<br />
accupressure every day. My sister had severe<br />
thyroid and low blood pressure problem. She was<br />
on medicine everyday. She stopped the medicine,<br />
the day she started the accupressure and pranayam.<br />
Now she is very happy to learn these. She feels<br />
more strength and no fainting any more. I had to<br />
see so many patients with different diseases like<br />
thyroid, stomach pain, liver problem, high sugar<br />
and others.<br />
They all feel happy now. My mom, who is 75<br />
years old, had chronic pain in her leg. She is<br />
practicing both pranayam and accupressure every<br />
day. She is very happy to get rid of her leg pain.<br />
Another problem I found was heavy smoking and<br />
tobacco use. I worked with 3 of them. I am happy<br />
to mention that 2 of them, both my elder cousins<br />
have stopped it for ever. They mentioned that they<br />
feel better doing pranayam, than smoking. I tried<br />
to take a few more initiative with other issues, but<br />
could succeed because of shortage of time.<br />
Though I went to take care of the final rites of my<br />
father, I enjoyed doing these sewa works in my<br />
spare time. -- Arun K Sharma, USA